Friday July 19th, 7.30pm

Michael Lee presents a concert recorded in the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Conductor José Serebrier leads the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere performance of his Symphonic B A C H Variations for Piano and Orchestra.
Bach-Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Serebrier: Symphonic B A C H Variations for Piano and Orchestra WORLD PREMIERE
Holst: The Planets
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier (conductor)
Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
Ladies of the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir
Desmond Earley (Guest Chorus Master)
(First broadcast Friday 28th September 2018)

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Friday July 26th, 7.30pm

Paul Herriott presents a concert recorded in the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Conductor Sarah Hicks (pictured) is at the helm as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra explore the Wild West in a programme of music by John Williams, Copland and Puccini.
John Williams: The Cowboys Overture
Copland: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Grofé: Excerpts from Grand Canyon Suite
Puccini: Excerpts from La fanciulla del West
Sarah Hicks (conductor)
Giselle Allen (soprano)
Peter Auty (tenor)
David Kempster (baritone)
(First broadcast 8th February, 2019)

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RTÉ lyric fm live from the 2019 West Cork Chamber Music Festival

As part of this year's broadcast from the West Cork Chamber Musical in Bantry, Paul Herriott presented a series of concerts from Bantry House and St. Brendan's Church, broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm. Click the links below to listen. 

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Sunday June 30th - Vespertine with Ellen Cranitch

At 10.30pm RTÉ lyric fm's coverage of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival continues when Ellen is joined, live from Bantry House, by Paul Herriott who introduces tonight's late night concert. Titled Endgame, pianist Finghin Collins performs Schubert's Sonata in B flat, the composer's final sonata before his death.

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Monday July 1st - Niall Carroll's Classical Daytime

Our coffee concert at 11.00am comes live from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in St. Brendan’s church, Bantry where Paul Herriott presents the Chiaroscuro Quartet playing Mozart‘s Quartet in E flat and Beethoven’s Quartet No.6 in B flat. Formed in 2005, the Chiaroscuro Quartet comprises violinists Alina Ibragimova (Russia) and Pablo Hernán Benedí (Spain), the Swedish violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion from France. They perform music of the Classical and early Romantic periods on gut strings and with historical bows. Their growing discography includes recordings of music by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn. The Chiaroscuro Quartet was a prize-winner of the German Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk/Musikfest Bremen in 2013 and received Germany’s most prestigious CD award, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2015 for their recording of Mozart’s Quartet in D minor and Mendelssohn’s Second string quartet in A minor.

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Thursday July 4th - The Blue of the Night with Bernard Clarke

At 10.30pm RTÉ lyric fm's coverage of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival continues when Bernard is joined, live from Bantry House, by Paul Herriott who introduces tonight's late night concert. The Festival Trio of pianist Barry Douglas, Viviane Hagner violin and cellist Johannes Moser perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor. Subtitled In memory of a great artist, this vast romantic work was dedicated to his mentor and friend Nicholas Rubinstein.

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Friday July 5th at 7.30pm - live from Bantry House at 8pm

Paul Herriott presents a concert live from Bantry House as part of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival including music by Schumann, Golijov and Emma O'Halloran.

Emma O'Halloran: 'Dying is a Wild Night' - Quatuor Zaïde (pictured)
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat Op.44 - Gloria Campaner, Borusan Quartet
Golijov: Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind - Mate Bekavac, Dahlkvist Quartet 

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